This, not Arizona, was the real crossroads moment. The fork in the road. Oregon invited you over to la maison de canard and spent the next three hours on national television doing a tap dance across your face.
So if you’re the CU Buffs, once you’ve wiped off the blood and crawled out of the ditch, here’s the No. 1 question, the bottom line for the season’s back nine holes:
Do you turtle?
Or do you fight?
Friday evening wasn’t winnable with the 2019 Buffs or the 2019 Steven Montez, let alone the 2016 versions of either.